Mechanic left tools under the hood after service
Mechanics occasionally leave tools, equipment, or missing parts like fuse box covers under a car's hood during service. This forces vehicle owners to clean up technician mistakes themselves and risks damaging engine components if the items shift during driving.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1doing your own oil changesDid this help you?
- 2returning the tool to the shopDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“discovered a huge ass tool just sitting on my battery.”source ↗
“I got my truck back from the dealership and opened the hood and saw a tool sitting there!”source ↗
“I picked up my truck from the shop once during a storm... Opened the hood the next day my damn fuse box cover was gone”source ↗
Where this came up
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